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These Eerie GIFs Show How Your Phone Feels, Hears, And Sees You

Your phone tracks your every move. Have you ever wondered what that looks like?

These Eerie GIFs Show How Your Phone Feels, Hears, And Sees You

Watch As Capitalism Spreads, Through The Writings Of Adam Smith

This animated infographic shows where, when, and in what language Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations has been published around the world. Watch a planet slowly grasped by the invisible hand.

Watch As Capitalism Spreads, Through The Writings Of Adam Smith

Handsome Paper Notebooks Come With Digital Backup

Mod is a line of notebooks that “syncs to the cloud.”

Handsome Paper Notebooks Come With Digital Backup

An App Designed To Keep Your Micromanaging Boss At Bay

Innovation By Design

Everyday Turns A Famed Viral Video Into iPhone App Gold

How MetaLab designer William Wilkinson turned a viral video meme into a best-selling iPhone app.

Everyday Turns A Famed Viral Video Into iPhone App Gold

Innovation By Design

Flow Lets You Split To-Do Lists With Others, Takes Aim at Basecamp

Impact

What are ‘ghost guns’?

This self-healing concrete automatically fills in cracks

A new Boston high-rise will be the largest office building to meet this exacting sustainability standard

News

Why ‘Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar’ became the number-one political podcast in a week

Can’t get your favorite drink at Starbucks? Here’s why

Darnella Frazier, who filmed George Floyd’s murder, awarded Pulitzer special citation

Co.Design

Chip and Joanna Gaines launch 9 virtual classes to channel your inner ‘Fixer Upper’

Barbie gets a makeover—with recycled plastic

This gorgeous pavilion is made almost entirely of waste

Work Life

The one extraordinarily simple hack you need to beat procrastination

How permissionless organization design gives your company an advantage

How to go back to connecting authentically post-pandemic